Harman's Cheese & Sugar Hill Historical Society
- Loretta Hubler
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 5, 2023
9/16/21 - Harman's Cheese Store & Museum is in Sugar Hill, NH. The store is just a small place with cheese, jams, jellies, maple products, pickles, relishes, honey and some unique locally-made condiments and is jammed inside.
Across the street is the Sugar Hill Historical Center. The museum is an all-volunteer organization to collect, care for and display artifacts that illustrate Sugar Hill’s history and culture. The old building was renovated from the Sugar Hill Fire Department when they moved in 1975. When we walked up, there were six old people sitting around a table outside playing cards and one got up and took us inside to explaine the different rooms.
The Main Exhibit Room houses actual items made by the members and donated to the museum like pictures and furnature. Old pieces like a spinning wheel, butter churn, and a large loom are in another room. Two other rooms house a library and clothing and jewelry and a gift shop.
The Back Room houses a vintage 1909 signature quilt, signed by all 36 members and in 2019 the group duplicated the pattern and sold signature squares to create three quilts that are displayed here.
If any one knows who these men are, please contact the Sugar Hill Historical Society.
Outside we entered the Carriage Barn that contains carriages, sleds and literally thousands of tools and artifacts lining the walls.
and plenty of tools
It also houses the original super large Sugar Hill Meetinghouse Town Clock that is still running.
New Hampshire struggled in the courts to stop the Northern Pass Project. This project would put monster size power poles from Canada to Connecticut right across New Hampshire's landscape destroying its beauty. It took nine years but the citizens of Sugar Hill and other communities defeated the project in a grassroots victory.
In another barn, there is Bettie Davis' sleigh - she lived in Sugar Hill, NH for a while
Realy interesting place.